Material Culture Conservation Education and Training

Recipient: Norris, Debra H (Newark, DE 19716 USA) in affiliation with University of Delaware

Goal: Funding supports graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections.

Description: The Winterthur/University of Delaware Master's-level Art Conservation Program (WUDPAC), which has been in existence since 1974, is one of only five graduate programs in the United States that educates and trains conservation professionals to care for our cultural heritage. WUDPAC is applying to the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the education and training of five Master's-level students a year for two years. The Fellowships are for students specializing in the preservation of objects, textiles, painted and decorative surfaces and/or furniture; plus travel costs for internship interviews and relocation, honoraria for special guest lecturers in preventive, objects, photographs, and textile conservation, research project costs, and other training expenses. Thirty Master's-level students are enrolled in the program: ten for each year of a three year program. In training conservators of the highest caliber, we are meeting a national need.

Grant: 200057 / PE-50051-10,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Education and Training,   Year Awarded: 2010

Professional Development for Conservators: Providing Preservation and Access for the Humanities

Recipient: Wentworth, Eryl P (Washington, DC 20005 USA) in affiliation with Foundation of American Institute for Conservation (Washington, DC 20006 USA)

Goal: Funding supports professional development through workshops offered around the country for conservators responsible for the care of humanities collections.

Description: The Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FAIC) seeks funding to support nine workshops consisting of six new course topics over a two year period. This initiative is part of FAIC's expanding program of professional development for conservators of cultural heritage, and builds on the successes and lessons learned from previous programs. An estimated 195 conservators will participate. 48 scholarships will increase access for conservator in under-served regions through travel stipends. Workshops will take place in 6 states and the District of Columbia.

Grant: 200060 / PE-50054-10,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Education and Training,   Year Awarded: 2010

Preserving the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection of the Fashion and Apparel Studies Department

Recipient: Lopez-Gydosh, Dilia (Newark, DE 19716 USA) in affiliation with University of Delaware

Goal: Funding supports the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, light filtering sleeves, storage furniture, and preservation supplies to house the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection. The items include clothing, accessories, and household textiles, many dating from the 18th century. The collection is used in graduate and undergraduate courses in costume history and collections management, in research, and in exhibitions.

Description: The Fashion and Apparel Studies Department at the University of Delaware is seeking funding to enhance the preservation, storage and exhibition spaces of the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection. Purchase and use of these items will fulfill recommendations made concerning the preservation of the Collection in the 2008 Delaware Collections Stewardship Project assessment. This project is focused on obtaining two types of resources that will significantly enhance the storage and exhibition areas of the Collection. First, to provide a controlled environment for storage and exhibition, environmental monitoring equipment, and UV light filtering products will be obtained. Second, to enhance preservation and storage conditions, the metal bars used for hanging garment storage will be replaced with bars of a smaller circumference and acid-free storage boxes for glass-plate negatives will be obtained to allow for proper storage of these artifacts. Start date 01-01-2010 end date 12-31-2010.

Grant: 199767 / PG-51023-10,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2010

Imaging and Preservation Field Services for the Southwestern United States

Recipient: Minks, Gina L. B (Dallas, TX 75244-3509 USA) in affiliation with Amigos Library Services, Inc.

Goal: A regional field service program that provides workshops, consultations, preservation surveys, disaster response assistance, reference services, and educational materials on preservation and digitization to libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations in the Southwest.

Description: Amigos' Imaging and Preservation Service (IPS) is a unit of Amigos Library Services, Inc., a membership based organization serving the education, consulting and technology needs of libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in the Southwestern United States. Established in 1991 with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as a preservation information center, Amigos' activities in preservation, and later imaging, have expanded to include workshops, site surveys, consulting, project management, disaster preparedness and response, and regional and national presentations. Services are targeted to the Amigos region that includes Arizona, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Services are also available to cultural institutions west of the Mississippi that do not have access to another regional preservation center. To continue offering premier service, the Amigos Imaging and Preservation Service is requesting continued support from NEH.

Grant: 194176 / PE-50028-09,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Education and Training,   Year Awarded: 2009

"American Visions" a Picturing America School Collaboration Project

Recipient: Lind, Ted (Newark, NJ 07102 USA) in affiliation with Newark Museum (Newark, NJ 07101 USA)

Goal: Three two-and-one-half day conferences in winter, spring, and summer 2010, for a total of 225 educators, to strengthen the use of Picturing America images in teaching core subjects in schools.

Description: The Newark Museum proposes to present American Visions, a School Collaboration Project that will provide 225 American K-12 educators and librarians with the knowledge, skills, and resources that they will need to design, implement, and evaluate curriculum lessons/units that connect with the goals of Picturing America. Building on the success of a modest Picturing America teacher institute presented at the Museum in August 2008 (supported by a NEH Chairmans Grant), this proposal will give the participants opportunities to collaborate with educators from across the nation, museum educators and curators, prominent scholars in the humanities, educational specialists in curriculum design/evaluation, and computer specialists. "American Visions" will be comprised of pre-conference activities, three 2 and 1/2 day conferences held throughout 2009/2010, and post-conference evaluation and dissemination sessions utilizing technological resources.

Grant: 196100 / AP-50011-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America School Collaboration Projects,   Year Awarded: 2009

Benjamin Franklin House Weekly Student Day

Recipient: Balisciano, Marcia (New York, NY 10024 USA) in affiliation with Benjamin Franklin House Foundation

Grant: 194801 / BP-50134-09,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Interpreting America's Historic Places Planning,   Year Awarded: 2009

Professional Development for Conservators: Providing Preservation and Access for the Humanities

Recipient: Wentworth, Eryl P (Washington, DC 20005 USA) in affiliation with Foundation of American Institute for Conservation (Washington, DC 20006 USA)

Goal: Professional development through workshops offered around the country for conservators responsible for the care of humanities collections.

Description: On behalf of the American Institue for Conservaiton of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC), the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC) seeks funding in the amount of $264,198 to support nine workshops consisting of five topics over a two year period. This initiative is part of the AIC's newly expanded program of professional development for conservators of cultural heritage, and builds on the successes and lessons learned from previous programs. An estimated 128 conservators will participate. 45 scholarships will increase access for conservators in underserved regions through travel stipends. A blended learning module will be created to improve an existing course on Adhesives for Conservation. A job task analysis will be conducted to help prioritize future training programs and as the basis for a online tool for conservators to assess and track their professional development needs.

Grant: 189593 / PE-50023-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Education and Training,   Year Awarded: 2008

Daily Life in Ancient Times

Recipient: Root, Rhonda G (Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA) in affiliation with Andrews University

Goal: A four-week summer institute for thirty school teachers on daily life in the ancient Middle East.

Description: We propose a four-week institute, "Daily Life in Ancient Times" for 30 K-12 teachers. It builds on our successful 2004-2005 NEH Institute by focusing on 13th century B.C.E. remains at Tell el-'Umayri in Jordan. Finds at this site demonstrate changes in human interaction with the environment in Israel and Jordan. To promote effective links among teachers, archaeological research and Near East cultures, we present: 1) how we know what we know about the past; 2) why the past is important; 3) daily life in the Fertile Crescent; and 4) how to use archaeology in classrooms. Seminars and laboratories with archaeologists and master teachers will result in cross-curricular lesson plans. Artifacts from the Horn Archaeological Museum at Andrews University will help teachers to envision the daily lives of people who lived in the 'cradle of civilization'.

Grant: 192003 / ES-50241-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2008

2008 Tour of Teaching Shakespeare Institutes

Recipient: LoMonico, Michael (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library

Goal: Two regional one-week workshops, serving thirty teachers in Lincoln, Nebraska, and another thirty in the greater Atlanta area, coupling performance-based and primary source approaches to the teaching of two plays of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

Description: In the summer of 2008, the Folger Shakespeare Library will organize and offer week-long faculty humanities workshops on Teaching Shakespeare in Lincoln, Nebraska and Greater Atlanta, Georgia. We are coordinating these workshops for secondary school teachers of English, drama, and humanities with local partners, including the University of Nebraska?Lincoln, the Georgia Council of Teachers of English, and Kennesaw State University in Georgia. The 2008 tour allows us to expand the institutes to the Southeastern and Midwest United States?areas where the Folger has had little reach in the past. We ask the National Endowment for the Humanities to consider a grant of $68,845 to support this regional tour of Teaching Shakespeare institutes.

Grant: 189972 / EZ-50232-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2008

The Digital Learning and Development Environment

Recipient: Mein, Nardina Nameth (Detroit, MI 48202 USA) in affiliation with Wayne State University

Goal: The development of a prototype learning tool to incorporate digital humanities collections housed in a university's digital repository, beginning with two collections housed in the Wayne State University Library System.

Description: The Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) of the Wayne State University Library System (WSULS) seeks to develop the prototype for an innovative approach to digital learning using image repositories. The project will integrate easy-to-use technical tools with instructional design principles and resources for teaching and learning, utilizing two of the Digital Image Collections created by the WSULS in collaboration with partner museums and archives (Virtual Motor City and Digital Dress). The web-based workspace of the "Digital Learning and Development Sandbox" that we will create represents the next step in instructional design for using digital collections. It will enable faculty and students to export images then reimport them into multi-modal "learning objects, supported by a comprehensive research and learning system. The final product will promote wider use of the Collections while also providing a generic model for working with digital repositories using open source technology.

Grant: 192255 / HD-50464-08,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

Children's Grant

Recipient: McGrady, Michael (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with National Head Start Association (Alexandria, VA USA)

Description: The National Head Start Association with funding made available through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will enter into a partnership with the NEH and the Office of Head Start focused on a new program of arts and humanities, entitled "Picturing America: American History through Our Nation's Art." This set of 40 renderings of America's finest art include images of famous paintings, photographs, and historical objects that show the breadth of the American experience. This partnership will ensure the artwork and related informational materials will be provided to every Head Start program in the nation.

Grant: 192445 / BA-50011-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Picturing America Teacher Seminar

Recipient: Eiland, William Underwood (Athens, GA 30602-6719 USA) in affiliation with University of Georgia (Athens, GA 30602 USA)

Description: The Georgia Museum of Art will present a three-day seminar that focuses on the images and themes of the NEH Picturing America and ties those works from our collections and to architecture and interiors in Athens, GA. The target audience is Georgia librarians and K-12 classroom teachers who have received the Picturing America sets through the pilot project or who will receive the sets through applications to the Endowment. Activities include lectures by curators and invited humanities scholars, gallery tours, sessions in the galleries with art educators and docents, tours of local historic sites and two private collections, the use of museum publications related to the seminar topics for participants' schools or local libraries. Participants will work in teams to develop lesson plans using Picturing America. The museum will work with the Georgia Center for Continuing Education to design the seminar as a course through which teachers may earn professional credit for their participation.

Grant: 192485 / BA-50013-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Picturing America Teacher Seminar

Recipient: Shoemaker, Marla K (Philadelphia, PA 19101-7646 USA) in affiliation with Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA 19101 USA)

Description: A six-day teacher seminar that will explore the works of art in the NEH's Picturing America image set. Forty Philadelphia-area teachers whose schools have received the image set will have the opportunity to connect these select works of art--representing three centuries of our shared national heritage--to objects in the Museum's renowned American collections, and to cultural and historical institutions across the region.

Grant: 192443 / BA-50009-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Picturing American Demonstration Workshop

Recipient: Linsner, Jean (Chicago, IL 60604-2500 USA) in affiliation with Chicago Architecture Foundation (Chicago, IL 60604 USA)

Description: Three-day Picturing America demonstration workshop for Chicago-area teachers and librarians.

Grant: 192442 / BA-50008-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Summer Institute for Teachers Anniversary Forum

Recipient: Allums, Claudia (Dallas, TX 75201 USA) in affiliation with Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

Description: A forum of speakers and presentations honoring and exploring the value of the humanities in renewing and deepening the teacher's professional growth.

Grant: 192439 / EZ-50274-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2008

Imaging and Preservation Education and Support Services for the Southwestern United States

Recipient: Minks, Gina L. B (Dallas, TX 75244-3509 USA) in affiliation with Amigos Library Services, Inc.

Goal: A regional field service program that provides workshops, consultations, preservation surveys, disaster response assistance, reference services, and educational materials on preservation and digitization to libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations in the Southwest.

Description: The Imaging and Preservation Service (IPS) is a project of Amigos Library Services, Inc, a membership-based organization serving the Southwestern United States. Established with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, IPS activities include workshops, site surveys, consulting, project management, disaster preparedness and response, and regional and national presentations. Services are targeted to the Amigos region that includes Arizona, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. IPS experience in imaging and preservation training and services provide the Southwest a unique, well-rounded, and standards-driven foundation that supports high-quality preservation and imaging projects. To continue offering these services to the Southwest, Amigos is requesting continued support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2007-2009.

Grant: 184575 / PE-50005-07,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Education and Training,   Year Awarded: 2007

Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for High School Educators

Recipient: Stein, Gil J (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago

Goal: The development of academically excellent, free, online materials on the history and culture of the Middle East for high school teachers to use in their classrooms.

Description: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and two on campus partners, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the eCUIP Digital Library Project seek materials development support from NEH to create "Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for High School Educators," an extensive online teacher resource on history and culture of the Middle East. The goal of the two-year project is to provide high school world history teachers nationwide with an online resource that draws upon the best in humanities scholarship to help build student understandings of Middle Eastern history. At present, such material is in short support and, in many cases, does not even exist. Created with faculty from the University of Chicago and involvement of a panel of teacher advisors, this resource will enable high school educators to focus on key issues and events, shape meaningful lesson plans, and help their students examine the stereotypes that abound in today's society.

Grant: 185078 / EE-50435-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development,   Year Awarded: 2007

Picturing the Past: A Database of Visual Images and Related Curricula for Teaching U.S. and World History

Recipient: Tindall, Pamela (Davis, CA 95616 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Davis

Goal: The expansion of an existing database of historical images as primary sources for teaching US history to include images for world history, all aligned with state and Advanced Placement history standards and cross-referenced for comparative study, all searchable and available free of charge.

Description: To help teachers succeed with their students, and to help students find an interest in history, this proposal seeks an NEH Materials Development grant in the sum of $200,000 to expand our existing Marchand and Halttunen U.S. historical image archive to include the world history and U.S. history image collections of the history faculty at the University of California, Davis, matched with other valuable primary sources and K-12 lesson plans in U.S. and world history, all organized according to national and state content and skills standards. We propose to provide teachers at all levels an on-line, free, easily accessible and searchable, public, encyclopedic, systematic and legal source of "fail-safe" images and lessons representing the history of the American people -- and the world's.

Grant: 185083 / EE-50440-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development,   Year Awarded: 2007

Ellis Island and Immigration to America, 1892-1924

Recipient: Hartman, Dorothy W (Budd Lake, NJ 07828 USA) in affiliation with Save Ellis Island (Mt. Olive, NJ 07828 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for eighty school teachers on the history of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century immigration at Ellis Island.

Description: Save Ellis Island, Inc. (SEI), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit and the National Park Service designated fundraising and programmatic partner for the restoration and reuse of the thirty un-restored buildings on Ellis Island, proposes to convene two one-week workshops for teachers investigating the impact of immigration to America in the early decades of the twentieth century. Using the power of place on Ellis Island, and the resources available there, the workshops will examine the implications of federal immigration legislation at the turn of the twentieth century in light of economic, social and political thought of the time. The workshop will include presentations by scholars, tours of Ellis Island's hospitals and Immigration Museum, field trips and opportunities for teachers to conduct research in primary source materials and oral histories in the Ellis Island library.

Grant: 182253 / BH-50158-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History,   Year Awarded: 2007

Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine

Recipient: Rowland, Monica (St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA) in affiliation with Florida Humanities Council (St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5005 USA)

Goal: Two one-week summer workshops for 100 school teachers examining Spanish St. Augustine in the context of American colonial history.

Description: The two weeklong "Landmarks of American History" seminars outlined in this proposal bring K-12 teachers from across the county to St. Augustine, the oldest European settlement in North America. The seminars bring together the historical, archaeological and architectural resources of this nearly 500-year-old city with the leading scholars of the Spanish colonial period. The seminars are organized by the Florida Humanities Council in cooperation with the St. Augustine Historical Society, the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute, and Flagler College. Occurring June 18-30, 2007, the seminars will provide teachers with: - a comparative look at the British and Spanish colonial experience, - an examination of how colonial Spanish Florida fits into the larger narrative of the first 250 years of American history, and - an opportunity to use primary documents, historical archives, and national landmarks to expand and enrich their understanding of history.

Grant: 182261 / BH-50166-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History,   Year Awarded: 2007